points by carlosjobim 2 days ago | 0 comments
Okay, but if somebody doesn't want to solve their own problem then I'm not going to loose sleep over it. There is a solution for those, but HN has turned somewhat into an endless complain venting space. Discussions seem to follow this pattern:
User 1: There are no good cars anymore!
User 2: You can get this car A or this car B which are good.
User 1: But I have car C which isn't good!
I didn't claim in my original comment that all or most software was high quality. I said that high quality software is generally available for MacOS. Then it's up to each person what they do.
[–] johnnyanmac 2 days ago
[–] carlosjobim 2 days ago
You can lead a horse to water...
[–] johnnyanmac 2 days ago
Yes. In the context of this topic, I simply want to make sure horses have a watering hole to come into once (or if) they get overloaded or outpriced out of the sugar water full of leeches.
For larger topics, you tackle system, not people.
[–] carlosjobim 2 days ago
That would be the MacOS app ecosystem, I'd say. And by purchasing (or selling) quality apps for a fair price, we contribute to maintain that watering hole.
[–] imtringued 1 day ago
You're talking about your own free rider attitude, if you haven't noticed.
You say you want X but you do Y.
But then you say you don't want X, you want someone to magically make Y as good as X.
That type of wishful thinking is all the rage in politics.
That's basically been the attitude of politics for awhile now. And I see that result doesn't end well.
This is comparatively harmless, but I'm overall trying to unsubscribe from that paradigm of "let stupid stupid". I at every least want to help contribute to alternatives if others wake up one day.